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Okay, so I don’t really know if the NFL Draft sucks. ‘Cuz I’m not watching.

Nor are most people. They’re at work. Who schedules an NFL draft during weekdays? Only a bonehead. The draft is supposed to be non-football season watching for football fans. It should be on a Sunday (or a Saturday and Sunday). Not during the week.

Then, they have this stupid red carpet during the draft and who is on it?! Two words that make all men and all football fans want to change the channel as quickly as possible: Whoopi. Golberg. Yes, you read that right. Not Bill Goldberg. Whoopi “I make men celibate” Goldberg. It’s the NFL Draft, for crying out loud. They’re supposed to have sports geeks and hot supermodels. Not the most annoying, most unattractive Marxist hag on television. What were they thinking? And trust me, it won’t bring more women to the NFL fan base. They like to look at the hot women, too. It’s aspirational. Nobody–man or woman–aspires to looking or sounding like Whoopi Goldberg. No-one.

And they stretched it out to three days. Three days to watch a bunch of middle-aged men pick the names of a less than 200 20-somethings–half of whom will be robbing banks or filing for bankruptcy in ten years? Who cares? Yaaawn.

But I was right about one thing. Remember back during Superbowl week when I said Tim Tebow would go in the first round, and everyone told me I was on crack? Well, guess who went in the first round? Told ya so. Not that I think he’ll live up to that draft slot. But they picked him. Their prob. They’re making billions, he’ll make millions. Why should I care? I don’t. But the two cool things about him being drafted so high is that the Denver Broncos said they picked him for his character, which the team said raised him to the first round. Finally. Maybe the NFL is finally getting it. Maybe. Plus, Tebow thanked G-d after he was drafted. Great to hear.

Do you? Is anyone reading this paying attention to the draft? Why? Ya got no wet paint to watch while it dries?

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Debbie….dont be a sports philistine….you have innate NFL draft pick perspicacity….as evidenced by your over-astute Tim Tebow call…convert….to a New England Patriots fan…rejoin your tribe….and yes, it can be a whole lot more fun than watching paint dry…but being a Detroit native explains your gender-centric perspective…..the Lions, well, sck….nothing wrong with taking a day off from suicide bombersfor football draft day sports talk…..

Tebow always puts God first and he will be thanking the Lord after he gets even more blessings from above, than he already has gotten. He’s a winner and I predict you won’t see him on in the tabloids, or on smoking gun with a mugshot, were most of the thugs and sperm donors of the NFL usually end up…

good for Tebow..hope he makes millions, but also really great passes….i know he will not be the 1st on the field this year…but just give him time, and time to practice…IT IS VERY REFRESHING TO SEE A YOUNG CHRISTIAN MAN PICKED IN THE FIRST ROUND…he has made no secret of his religious views..however, he has lived up to those standard…there will not be any wife beating, dog fighting,dui’s and rape and/’or attempted rape…this is a clean kid.

now he has to settle down, practice and throw like the devil…well maybe not the devil….but this kid is going places….the NFL should have about 99% more players like him

congrats tim …..job well done…enjoy Denver, i lived in Denver and the mountains are breathtaking ……jmc

Debbie, I agree Tebow will not live up to the hype. This pick to me was inexplicable. And as a Florida taxpayer I found his Xtian warrior act on the UF football field to be nauseating, more in line with his low IQ than his alleged spirituality.

Great article. I detest espn and roger goodell. I think they are both to blame for the red carpet crap and breaking a seventy five year tradition of having the draft on all day saturday and sunday. It just wasn’t the same. Another thing that pissed me off was its the nba playoffs and the draft went right up against it. The nfl has no respect for other leagues. Like for example when the college basketball national championship game is on the nba has no games out of respect. The nfl is the complete opposite.

40 year Broncos fan. Lived through Craig Morton years. The Dan Reeves years. Elway. Etc. I don’t confess to understand the ins and outs of how decisions are made in professional sports – cause I have a brain wired for rational, problem solving, no blowback solutions built out of character, experience, my Boy Scout upbringing and a lifetime of church and Bible. It puts me at a disadvantage to understanding naw-chash.

Anyway – I’m damn glad Tebow is coming to Denver. Unless the world rolls over and Al Gore is revealed to be Israel’s long awaited Messiah … I’m pretty sure we’re not going to see Tebow in an SUV shot to death by gangstas, not going to see him on the late news being perp walked for gun possession in a nightclub, beating his wife, beating his girlfriend, shot to death by is girlfriend for not leaving his wife, disappearing on his Contract and ending up smoking a ton of weed at a Naturapathic College, running a whore barge up the river or owning the mortgage on a whore-house in Dallas for the other Players.

This I’m pretty sure of.

I’m also pretty sure he’s very serious about competing, about proving critics wrong and preserving that fire in the belly that we love in, say, Drew Brees. Personally, I don’t think he’ll disappoint. But then, I’m the kind of chump who thinks Brandstater (a Denver QB) is capable of impressing the hell out of, and surprising the hell out of the NFL nay sayers. Woody Paige tells me I’m smoking my socks, but I’ve watched that kid throw a ball harder and more accurately than Elway. And he’s TALL. In the NFL I believe a QB today has to be able to see over the line, for pete’s sake. So …

… Debbie surely knows more about the inner workings of professional sports, but this time, I’m going to say I think Tebow will be what they hope for him to be.

Jury’s out on McDaniels. It’s only one year, but damn … it was a rough and flippin crazy year.

No bigger crap shoot than the nfl draft. sam bradford and his surgically repaired shoulder may have been the first pick, but if the rams don’t have an offensive line, bradford will spend much of this season (and possibly the next) eating lots of artificial turf.

Yeah, Tebow is a nice guy, but I don’t think he will ever be a great quarterback in the NFL. When you look at the two losers that are already on the Broncos’ team you can understand why they took him. Orton’s QB rating was 86.8 from last season, and Brady Quinn (aquired from the Browns) was a pathetic 67.2

He probably won’t start anytime soon as a passing situation quarterback, but the Bronco’s might come up with a wildcat style system that can take advantage of Tebow’s size and current skills.

As a Pittsburgh Steelers fan, I have one question here, why the hell is the NFL Draft being moved to Thursday night? I just don’t get it, I’m used to it being on Saturday & Sunday, and your Debbie, during the course of the week, people are working, etc., so I don’t know why Roger Goodell did this crap by moving it to Thursday, I just can’t put 2-@-2 together on that one!

Sean – I’m a Steelers fan too. Do you think Leftwich will replace Roethlisberger for the rest of the season? You know what I mean, Ben gets traded for being a dumbass and goes to a loser team like the Lions.

During a weekday? The Thursday and Friday first, second rounds etc started at 7 or 7:30 pm didn’t they? A minor point for sure but wasn’t the intention to try and maximize the prime time exposure especially given the lack of TV competition?

I watched very little but saw enough to know that it looked like endless hours of hyping every choice as the ideal pick for the respective team making choices. Did Roger G hug every pick in every round like he was greating the return of a prodigal son?

The same scenarion played out for every pick I saw. Shots of the player with family friends or body guards celebrating their pick (visions of millions running through each persons brain I’m sure), stupid precorded video of the pics adopting vaious poses on the side of the screen with some kind of stats on the remainder, analysis by six? or more ESPN experts. And what’s up with the dorks in jerseys in the hotel ballrooom hooting and howling every pick. and Goodell schmoozing with these fans. He must know that he has to play to this fan base but it turns me off.

There must be some culural phenom known as ESPN syndrome that is impacting a large segment of our population. College football and basketball recruiting has almost reached this point too.

I was surprised but all four persons in my offcie watched all or part of the first evening. One watched Survivor then switched over. Two of us watched off and on. The other being a nebraska fan seemed to think having one of their players selected second overall validated Nebraska as an elite football school.

Tebow, Schmebow. People act like there aren’t Christians in the NFL already, like he’s some kind of missionary. There are a ton of Christians who play that never get any mention because it doesn’t sell newspapers or make headlines like that dummy Plaxico Burress.

I think he won’t adjust and throw like he is in college and will still be a great QB. He is a Steve Young. Everyone said Young wouldn’t make it in the NFL. He got drafted in the USFL, and they said he was a bust. The USFL folded (because of a-hole Donald Trump) and Young excelled and won a Super Bowl. If you are tough and got heart with his talent he will go far.

Tim Tebow’s a winner. While he won’t start this season, give him a couple of seasons and he’ll have Denver in the playoffs. He’s Steve Young 2.0, a bigger and stronger version. Can you imagine the fear in a 5’8″, 180-lb defensive back’s eyes when he sees a yoked, 6’3″, 235-lb quarterback coming straight at him and through him as Tebow makes a key first down in a huge game the Broncos have to win?

From what I’ve read the folks at the NFL say viewership was up this year. I realize folks have to work but it didn’t seem to go on all that late Thursday night. While it would have been more convenient to have it all done over the weekend by, but breaking it down into 3 days it did give the chattering heads more time to talk about little known players from colleges that didn’t get as much press who, as we all know, sometimes make for the most inetresting stories. And when things got slow I had a garage that got cleaned (sponsored by Miller Lite)a yard that got mowed (also sponsored by Miller Lite) and the remote to bounce me around the other 100+ channels.

Jarhead, from what I’ve heard, the Steelers haven’t named a starting QB for opening day, but I think it’ll be Byron Leftwich, if that’s the case, then he’ll replace Big Ben for the first 4-6 games, back a few years ago in the Steelers championship season, Leftwich played really good in replacing Roethlisberger when he was a little banged up. But I think the Steelers should play the “wildcat offense”, either Roethlisberger or Leftwich will do the traditional offense, and put Dennis Dixon in for the wildcat formation, did you see that TD run Dixon made against the Ravens last season (in which I really hate the Ravens, Bengals & Browns).

Jarhead, I hope the Steelers don’t trade Big Ben at all, he won two superbowls with our team, they better not trade him to either the Browns, Bengals, or Ravens!